Collection Scope and Content Note

Travel scrapbooks kept by Edwin S. Gillette from Cuba, 1905, Jamaica, 1906, and Europe and Egypt, 1922; and a scrapbook kept by Flora Spence Gillette commemorating her trips around the United States and abroad with dried flowers, leaves, and other vegetation. World War I letters and memorabilia from Paul Gillette when he served with the Medical Department of the Quartermaster Corps, American Expeditionary Force, to his family, 1917-1918, including letters from the U.S. Army Medical Officers Training Camp, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., the Young Men's Christian Association of the United States National War Work Council, the YMCA of the City of New York Army Branch, and Evacuation Hospital #6. Also, portrait of Edwin S. Gillette by Professor I. P. Church.